Escaping, Forever

IT WAS BARELY A SOUNDBITE on the local news, just a brief news item, at the end of the evening broadcast. Local girl found dead. Suspected victim of blunt trauma force following altercation at school... And nothing else. The next day, on the same news cast, they offered a correction. Cause of death determined to have been suicide. The girl, (they gave her name this time) was 15, was known to be non binary, and had apparently been subjected to bullying on several ocasions. The photo of her face revealed an attractive, intelligent young lady, with pain in her eyes. Finally, the news had provided the relevant information; it all came together. In a samll town in the American lower midwest, a child was born dfferent, and grew up different. Honestly, I have no idea precisely what is meant by the term "non binary" regarding sexual orientation. No idea. I need to do some research, and educate myself. Hell, I can barely figure out all the letters in "LGBTQ", for instance. But the important thing is that she was different, did not conform to societal norms, did not fit in, and, because of that, and because she lives in an uncivilized country with a backwards, intolerant, primitive culture, she was mentally, emotionally tortured, harassed her entire short, young life, until she simply could not take it anymore, and she escaped, forever. You don't have to know much about particular sexual orientations to know that. All you have to know is that there exist a variety of sexual orientations among humans, all of which are quite natural and normal, and should be accepted by society, but, are not. Way to go, America. You must be very proud of yourself. I have a neighbor who is a good, hard working family man, a friend of mine. He hates Trump; good for him. He is also an evangelical Christian who believes that gay people are sinners for being gay, and thay when they die, they go to hell. That fact alone motivates me to avoid my neighbor.. Hatred and bigorty, discrimination based on religious fanatacism is pure evil to me, and I cannot abide it. The widespread hatred of gay people which is prevelant in most cultures is directly related to religious dogma. This is plainly the case in the United Staes in mainstream American cutlure. Religious bssed, irrational hatred. Throughout American history, gay and transgender people, non binary people, whoever they are, have been mistreated, harassed, murdered, exclused no less brutally than African-Americans and native Americans. And we as a people ars still doing it today. We should be ashamed of ourselves. By all accounts the young lady who tragically took her own life not far from where I live was a bright, cheerful, pleasant person, fun to be around. You can't even imagine the contributions she might have made to the world had she lived. Her loss is everyone's loss. And I will always believe this; that her "suicide" wasn't really so much a suicide as it was a murder, a murder committed not be a single individual, but by our entire society, our culture; in effect, all of us. This concept will not be popular, and will arouse righteous indignation among the self righteous. Nevertheless, it is true, and the best approach would be to reform or abolish the religion, the culture, and the society, any society, which commits such crimes.